Senior Software Engineer - AI Platform Team

AI Platform builds and operates the LLM and agent infrastructure every team at Coinbase builds on and ships high impact AI agents on top of it. We are the company's single path to LLMs and the substrate for the full agent lifecycle: build deploy run observe improve.

What you'll do:

• LLM Gateway: one API for 60+ models across all major providers including self hosted open weight models with auth PII redaction quotas fallbacks and cost optimization
• AI Hub: single front door for agents skills MCP servers knowledge bases models memories and keys
• Agent and MCP runtime: microVM sandboxes per agent run a governed MCP gateway over 125+ servers cross trust agent identity tier 1 agents for code analytics and exec personas
• Knowledge Bases: connect any data source auto provision vector and markdown stores queryable by any agent over MCP
• AI Spend Hub: FinOps for AI spend attribution and governance across the company
• Evaluation and observability: in house LLM as judge harness with full tracing and eval tooling
• Company wide chat and low code workflow surfaces thousands of weekly actives each
• Applied AI: we embed with teams to build production agents build the feedback loops that let subject matter experts refine them and apply traditional ML including fine tuning where it beats prompting
• Utilizes and builds generative AI responsibly maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency cost and quality

Required Skills and Experience:

• Own multi quarter high impact initiatives on the platform (gateway runtime knowledge governance) or the applied agents on top. Partner across engineering security legal finance and product and work directly with our partners at the frontier labs and major cloud providers.

Public blog posts and talks showcasing the team's work:

• • NodeSmith: AI-Driven Automation for Blockchain Node Upgrades
  • Making Smarter Decisions Faster with AI at Coinbase
  • CB-GPT - The opportunity and the vision for GenAI at Coinbase
  • Lessons from launching Enterprise-grade GenAI solutions at Coinbase
  • AWS re:Invent 2025 - Scaling support compliance & productivity with conversational AI at Coinbase

How does Coinbase ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?

What We Do

Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets including trading staking safekeeping spending and fast free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.

Why Work With Us

We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world to help people control their own wealth start companies have financial privacy and participate in the global economy. And to get us there we focus build and move as a team.

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